Durhamfootman wrote:presumably the kid who scored hat tricks in both the QF and SF, will return to Blighty, sign a £25k a week contract for one of the Manchester clubs, never play for them, and end up on loan at Macclesfield Town, after never being given the chance to oust a top foreign player on £300k a week

Ryan brewster is at Liverpool. Hopefully he gets a chance to move into the first team. He pulls one back 2-1.

Gibbs White makes it 2-2! Sesegnon created both goals with excellent crosses. Foden and Guehi make it 4-2!

looks as though Southgate has decided that England will play with 3 centre backs in the WC next year, with attack minded wing backs. He also seems to be suggesting that lumping the ball up the field will not be tolerated, when explaining the omission of Carlton Palmer Chris Smalling. Lets hope it works for him. It feels like progress, if he can find any England qualified players who can actually do that. From what I've seen of the current crop of defenders and defensive midfielders all they are able to do is gradually pass the ball backwards until eventually it gets played to the keeper so he can lump it up field. At times recently England have managed to gradually work the ball from the middle of the opposition half back to their own keeper.... and that was against poor teams.

This is where the injustice of not being able to overturn a yellow card comes into it as well. THe next game is arguable the biggest game in NI history. A player is not able to play it due to a ball being hit into his back. The video evidence is there, let the player play

I confess to enjoying that first half. Possibly the best I've seen England play in a while. Okay, it's a bit naive at times and a bit frenetic at others, but these young lads are trying to move the ball forward at every opportunity, some of them look very comfortable on the ball. I have no idea how good this German side is, but I do recognise some of the names.

I can only hope that the second half is as good and GS doesn't feel the need to chop and change things too much